Category: 1920s

At the Kiddies Ball, ca. 1925

Arthur F. Kales :: At the Kiddies Ball, about 1925. Gelatin silver print. Verso: inscribed in blue fountain pen ink, at lower center edge: “INEZ STRYKER IN FOREGROUND (LATER MRS. KALES)”. | src The J. Paul Getty Museum

Vu magazine nº 30, 1928

Studio Lorelle :: Brigitte Helm, la vedette du film “L’Argent”. VU magazine nº 30, 10 octobre 1928. | src Musée Nicéphore Niépce
Studio Lorelle :: Brigitte Helm, 10 octobre 1928. Published in VU magazine.

Anna Sten (postcards)

Anna Petrovna Fesak, known as Anna Sten. Ross Verlag postcard nº 6113/2. (UFA)
Anna Sten. Hänsom Filmbilder. Ross Verlag. Serie 4, nº 569. (UFA) | src Virtual History

(anthropomorphic) Figure, 1928

Cadavre Exquis [André Breton, Max Morise, Jeannette Ducrocq Tanguy, Pierre Naville, Benjamin Péret, Yves Tanguy, Jacques Prévert] :: Figure, 1928. Collaborative collage made stacking found printed images of mundane objects (*) in an anthropomorphic figure. | src MoMA
(*) The presence of the umbrella recalls a phrase the Surrealists adopted from the poet Comte de Lautréamont (born Isidore Ducasse) as an ideal description of the principle of juxtaposition: “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.” [quoted from source]

Female Nude, ca. 1930

Magnus Weidemann :: [Desnudo femenino en la ventana] ~ [Female nude by the window], 1929-1931. | src TEA ~ Tenerife Espacio de las Artes

Carina Ari in Sous-marine

Carina Ari (*) i Sous-marine, foto: Studio G.L. Manuel Frères, Paris, 1925. | src Dansmuseet arkiv on IG
Carina Ari (*) i Sous-marine, foto: Studio G.L. Manuel Frères, Paris, 1925. | src Dansmuseet arkiv on IG
(*) Maria Karina Viktoria Jansson (Stockholm, 1897 – Buenos Aires, 1970)